Dee Palanisamy @ The Dock: Sunday 28th April

Take the kids along to the first of a series of Story Play Days at the The Dock Library 107 Victoria Harbour Promenade.

Easy to get to by public transport: any train to Southern Cross then hop on a tram 11, 35, 48, 70, 75

Jan 'Yarn' Wositzky

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A Bundle of Sticks is the musical story that celebrates the birth of democracy in Australia.

Written and performed by Jan 'Yarn' Wositzky - Bushwackers Band co-founder, musician, and renowned storyteller - in collaboration with director and writer Sue Ingleton - APG, Australia You're Standing In It, Dimboola - it's a lively, heart-felt, fun and rebel-rousing show that tells of the hitherto unknown 15,000 strong 1851 Monster Meeting of Diggers on Forest Creek (Chewton, Castlemaine).

It was Australia's first mass political protest. They created a democratic movement that won the vote and led to the 1854 bloodshed at Eureka.


Dates and venue on the poster: click to enlarge.

World Storytelling Day 2019 - a glimpse

Dear Subscribers,

I'm re-posting our photos and videos from World Storytelling Day as I've received feedback that some of you could not access the videos. 

I experimented with embedding them from Facebook - clearly that does not work for everyone, so now I've uploaded them to Youtube. I hope you can all see them now.

World Storytelling Day is our most ambitious event in the calendar. It seems to grow every year. This year the subcommittee who pulled it together was Anna Manuel (WSD Kids) and Durgah Devi Palanisamy (Adults) with Daniela Bücheler-Scott and Jackie Kerin. The decision to run two events came about as a result of your feedback last year. We listen!

Hosted at The Dock, we kicked off at 11.00 am with World Storytelling Day for Kids. We had a full house of children with their adults in tow. The team of specialist early childhood storytellers entranced, enthralled and excited babies, toddlers and primary age children.

 This video will give you a glimpse of the fun.

I'm also going to share this video with you as is shows the entire Acknowledgement of Country led by Dani and Tamia. Several of you have contacted me asking to see this. You could have heard a pin drop.

At 2.00 pm the celebration for adults launched with a video story especially recorded for us by  Kamini Ramachandran from Singapore. One of the reasons we like The Dock is we can share stories from around the world in this way.

Kamini Ramachandran

Kamini is the creative director and founder of Storyfest, an International Storytelling Festival held annually in Singapore. The program will be launched any day. Keep and eye out and if you are travelling north, Storyfest is a terrific opportunity to connect with international tellers from afar.

Anthony snapped in action

Please visit our Facebook page and enjoy the photos taken of the storytellers. We are blessed to have the support of so many talented friends and supporters. Anthony Cheung, once again gifted the tellers with glorious images.
 

And finally, a thank you  Rex Smeal who joined us for the second year in a row. Rex is a digital artist who has gifted us an animation of the day. Rex also created the image for Fabled Nights 2019.

HUGE thanks to Anna, Dee, the committee, and the storytellers for a stupendous day of story.

Dani, Anna, Dave, Dee, Sarah, Alex, Kate, Jackie, Imogen (Missing from the line-up: Matteo, Roz Quin and Susan Hall)

Happy World Storytelling Day 2019

Jackie Kerin